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Left 4 Dead: The Sacrifice Trailer

Which character will give their life so the others may live? That's the question Valve poses as the setup for the latest DLC pack for its zombie-movie-as-videogame-franchise, Left 4 Dead. The download is set for release next week, and we've got the cinematic trailer that will get you amped up to take on The Sacrifice.

The Sacrifice is a three-map campaign with a story that links the two games and takes some of the mystery out of the events portrayed in Valve's previous L4D2 DLC pack, The Passing.

The Sacrifice is available for L4D and L4D2, and as an added bonus, the new DLC will give L4D players the new machineguns and melee weapons released in The Passing. And L4D2 owners will receive one of the original game's most popular campaigns, No Mercy.

The Sacrifice is set to launch for free on October 5 for Windows PCs -- the same day Valve plans to launch the Mac version of L4D2 on Steam. The Xbox 360 download will cost 560 Microsoft Points ($7).

Sharkey says: So many games, so little time. With Enslaved and NBA 2K11 also launching on the 5th, I don't know if I'll have time to get to this one -- and I was just starting to get into the Halo: Reach multiplayer. And then comes Medal of Honor, Fallout: New Vegas, The Force Unleashed II... the list goes on and on with another big title coming out every week. As Michael Drucker wrote for us back in February: Dear videogame industry, please stop making games, I need some time to catch up.